Crimes and Misdemeanors, according to Conard’s article, poses a lot of important questions about the meaning of life and the existence of God. He begins his article by stating the plots of the two lives being shown in the movie. One in particular, of a man named Jonah where he questions his own values based on his life situation in that moment. Conard makes the premise that Jonah got away with murder because his views on God were not demeaning to his own life. Meaning that since Jonah did not actively follow God, like his friend rabbi Ben, he was able to get away with murder, guilt-free. Additionally, further explanation of how this came to happen could have greatly helped Conard’s explanation of Jonah’s view of God. Conard explained Jonah’s
